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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790009003321

Autore

Nagy Gregory

Titolo

Homer the preclassic [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Nagy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-10216-0

9786613520555

0-520-95024-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Sather classical lectures ; ; v. 67

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Oral tradition - Greece - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-402) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- MAPS -- FIGURES -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire -- 2. Homer Outside His Poetry -- 3. Homer and His Genealogy -- 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey -- 5. Iliadic Multiformities -- 6. Variations onaTheme of Homer -- 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer -- 8. Homeric Variations onaTheme of Empire -- 9. Further Variations onaTheme of Homer -- 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation -- Epilegomena. A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum

Sommario/riassunto

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined "epic space" of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.